United Kingdom: Abortion should be a medical matter, not a criminal one. The law needs to change

01/12/2019 There has been a predictably overwrought response to the election manifesto promises of both Labour and the Liberal Democrats to decriminalise abortion. Rightwing and Catholic commentators alike imagined hordes of heavily pregnant women at abortion clinics, demanding their fully formed foetuses be evacuated from their uteruses. Just because the law said that they now…

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United States: Planned Parenthood Wins Lawsuit Against Anti-Abortion Activists Alleging Fraud and Illegal Recording

15/11/2019 Planned Parenthood won a lawsuit worth $2 million Friday, after a jury found that an anti-abortion group had broken multiple laws by secretly recording and releasing manipulatively edited video footage of doctors and staff. The Center for Medical Progress and its founder David Daleiden were found guilty of fraud, trespassing and illegal secret recording….

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